Pottle v. Up-Right, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2018
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. · Payne v. Soft Sheen Products, Inc. · McNeal v. Hi-Lo Powered Scaffolding, Inc. · Dyer v. Shafer, Gilliland, Davis, McCollum & Ashley, Inc. · Walker v. General Electric Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A products liability action for failure to warn requires a three-part analysis: (1) whether the defendant held a duty to warn the plaintiff; (2) whether the actual warning on the product, if any, was inadequate; and (3) whether the inadequate warning proximately caused the plaintiff's injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]egardless of whether a failure to warn claim is phrased in terms of negligence or strict liability, the analysis is basically the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exercise reasonable care to . . . inform the user.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.